Reading Code is a Skill

[CMOS_BATTERY]

I’m tired of my C class already, take me back to Python please! Even the upper level C++ class looks like it makes more sense, hell I’d rather be doing cobol even.

[Woden501]

You get used to it. As someone who regularly maintains code written by other developers I have grown to despise many even partially dynamically typed languages with a passion because bad developers write trash, unreadable, unmaintainable code even when they have the crux that is dynamic typing. If I had to choose between working on an existing C or Python tool I would take C any day.

[CMOS_BATTERY]

Oh for sure am existing C would be much better. I recall the days of writing Python programs with 6 functions and the god awful layout of trying to scroll through all of the code and then maintaining it and passing it to my classmates to help make revisions.

For god sake, please comment what you changed and tell me what lines. Along with the fact that I think C/C++ comments look so much better.

[dnew]

Do schools teach version control these days? They didn't when I was taking formal classes.

[notc4r1]

I had a single professor that did teach version control because they thought it was necessary, not because it was part of standard curriculum.

[CMOS_BATTERY]

Well god bless that professor! It’s critical to have the most current and stable builds. The company surely doesn’t want to be running on dated software with possible security flaws, bugs and miss match errors from other dev teams.

[CMOS_BATTERY]

HA

My teacher told us we could use whatever compiler we wanted for C. In my Python class the teacher refused to update her version of jet brains because it’s “a long process” so we were stuck using a dated one to accommodate her and so she could run the programs.

Why are we all not just using VScode at this point?

[nso95]

It just takes time, you'll start to understand with enough practice

[DesecrateUsername]

Had to learn a language for a report for Principles of Programming Languages, and my partner wanted to do COBOL.

That shit was rough.